FROM THE BASELINE WHO TO WATCH ON SUNDAY West team On the West side, there's clearly one man looking to put on a show. He's from Philly, he's getting little publicity, and his 300-pound Laker teammate isn't playing. Watch out for Kobe Bryant. Kobe WHO TO WATCH ON SUNDAY East team How can you not think Michael Jordan will do something above and beyond all the other All-Stars? He'll turn 39 in a week, and assuming he can get the ball away from Allen Iverson enough to score 20, this could be MVP award No. 4. Jordan Number on our mind The number of times the All-Star classic has been held in the City of Brotherly Love, and in three different arenas. 4 They said it "Man, I thought we were more mature, too." -- Clippers sophomore Darius Miles when asked why his mature team lost to the rookies. Miles OTHER STUFF More ESPN.com NBA material There's so much NBA All-Star coverage on ESPN.com we don't know where to put it all. But you can get it all in one place. • Lawrence: MJ vs. AI for All-Star MVP • May: Didn't this weekend matter? • Fred's Points: Watch Francis • Dr. Jack: My Memories • Rosters: West | East | 3-Point Sun., Feb. 10 PHILADELPHIA -- Enough of the hype already. The Saturday fun is over with, we've discussed who will win the MVP award on Sunday and who will be booed and we've seen all the celebrities in town showing off and partying it up. Let's get to the game. While most people believe nobody cares who wins and loses, flash back to last season in Washington, D.C. Oh, you remember. The mighty West squad, with Kobe and Garnett and CWebb and all the others dominates the game early, going up 13 after one quarter and 19 after three. It's over, right, and nobody cares who wins. But Allen Iverson and Stephon Marbury and Dikembe Mutombo decided they didn't want to lose. Iverson scored 15 points in the final nine minutes, and Marbury hit a pair of three-pointers in the final minute and the East outscored the West 41-21 in the fourth quarter to win it 111-110. It sure didn't look like nobody cared when the East celebrated wildly. "I've been in the All-Star game the last seven years, and I've never seen anything like this," said Mutombo, who had 22 rebounds and got traded to Philadelphia soon after when winning East coach Larry Brown couldn't stop gushing. What should we expect this time? Some of the players are different, like the addition of only the greatest player of this era in Michael Jordan coming back, so let's break it down. The West team again doesn't have Shaquille O'Neal, missing his third All-Star game in five years. This time it's his toe. Hey, you gonna call a 315-pounder a liar? But Kevin Garnett, Chris Webber and Tim Duncan are a very imposing front line, and with Steve Francis still angry from his poor performance in the dunk contest, the West should start quickly again. It's impossible to read into matchups, but we'll try. There won't be scores in the 140s this year, unlike some of the games in the past, so defense is played. And that means Mutombo. This year Dikembe has Jermaine O'Neal to either play alongside him or back him up, so the East can give the West some issues up front. When it comes to the backcourts, the East has Iverson, Jordan and Jason Kidd to handle the ball and get it to the right places. The West guards won't, dare we say, have the ball as much, as they defer inside. And you can argue the East will always be able to make a comeback because of these guards. The only West player standing out in terms of wanting this game in a special way would be Bryant. Gary Payton admitted the West will be feeding hometown hero Kobe. Another fourth quarter showdown between Kobe and an East guard? Look for it. Who wins? After what we saw last year, don't bet against the East doing the same thing. Emotions will be high as the Philly crowd gives special props to its own two players in Iverson and Mutombo and Jordan, who appreciation for knows no city boundaries. We'll pick the East to win it and Kidd to outshine Iverson and Jordan with a triple double. A little this and that Which cheesesteak place does Tyra Banks go to? Geno's, we saw it for ourselves. The media loves Shaquille O'Neal, but let's face it, the big fella isn't playing. Shouldn't players actually in this game get more love, especially the day of the game? The new Hoop-it-up competition was a bigger success than the 2ball event, but that was mainly because the Philly crowd had a team of its own to cheer for. The sight of Moses Malone, a beloved figure here because he got Dr. J his only championship, posting up either Cuttino Mobley or the WNBA's Tina Thompson, was fantastic. Could Moses still play today, even in his 40s? Would you rather have Greg Ostertag? But alas the Philly crowd turned to boos when Hedo Turkoglu and the Sacramento team beat Philly in sudden death (sudden death in hoops?) to win. If there was no Philly team here chances are nobody would have paid attention. You listening Atlanta, site of next year's weekend? Better get Dominique warmed up. Why does the dunk contest no longer get it done? How about because we've seen every kind of imaginable dunk already? Jason Richardson did a nice job earning the three highest scores, but the crowd wanted to see the lone star from the lone star state, Steve Francis, win. The crowd wants to see people it knows. Gerald Wallace did nice job, but nobody knew who he was.